Eoin Farrell, 40, who was at Kennedy Airport for a flight home to New Mexico, said Trump's revised version hardly changed a thing.

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"It seems like a really wishy-washy way to just repeat what he wanted to do in the first place. It's stupid," said Farrell.

The revamped executive order removed Iraq from the list of restricted countries.

But visitors and would-be immigrants from Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Libya are still banned under the order.

"It's still a Muslim ban, it always was a Muslim ban. No more, no less," Farrell said.

Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security program, was even more blunt.

People gathered at Kennedy Airport to protest President Trump's original travel ban on Jan. 28. (James Keivom/New York Daily News)

"This is a transparent effort to put lipstick on a pig," said Goitein. "There was no national security justification for (the first) travel ban . . . and nothing has happened in the weeks since then to create one. Banning people from this country on the basis of their religion is against everything this country stands for. Bigotry does not make us safer."

"Religious freedom and equality are two of the hallmarks of our country and our laws, and we will fight to defeat his discriminatory policies again and again," said NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said, "While the White House may have made changes to the ban, the intent to discriminate against Muslims remains clear."

"My office is closely reviewing the new executive order, and I stand ready to litigate — again — in order to protect New York's families, institutions and economy," he said.